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Malleus malleus

common hammer-oyster

marine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 507055 ↗

5

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1928

First collected

1964

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Malleus malleus, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1920s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1928 by D.B. Langford & D. Thaanum; D. Thaanum (Loochoos; Okinawa; Kumejima Isld.).

From the collection

Malleus malleus, 260761Malleus malleus, 222715Malleus malleus, 260760Malleus malleus, 253830Malleus malleus, 260759